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Newman was inspired to create the sculpture after revered civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. gave his immortal “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, DC, in August 1963. As King spoke at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial, the towering obelisk of the Washington Monument glimmered in the distance behind the huge crowd of civil right marchers. After King was assassinated in 1968, Newman dedicated Broken Obelisk to him. The move was controversial at the time; during this era of civil unrest, the ragged, broken top edge of the obelisk brought to mind a shattered Washington Monument.
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 is now considered an innovative masterpiece. However, when the painting was initially exhibited, at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City, Americans were scandalized. At the time people in the United States had had little exposure to European cubism, and critics were merciless. The figure in the painting was compared to a bag of golf clubs, a stairway in ruins after an earthquake, and a bunch of broken violins. New York Times art critic Julian Street wrote that Nude Descending a Staircase No.
Mutt, Duchamp was a board member of the society, and it was common knowledge that Fountain was his submission. The society’s policy was to display any artwork submitted, but the group’s curators refused to put Fountain in the show. Some thought the work was vulgar and immoral, while others simply did not consider the plumbing fixture worthy of an art exhibit. 60 While Fountain never displayed at the Society of Independent Artists show, Duchamp arranged to have it photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, one of the era’s most successful photographers.